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Christopher Chaltain <[log in to unmask]>
Sun, 27 Sep 2015 21:28:20 -0500
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How does Jarte and a screen reader do with announcing advanced 
formatting attributes like headings, lists and tables?

On 09/27/2015 12:35 PM, Ana G wrote:
> David,
>
> Thanks for telling us about Jarte. I just visited the website,
> downloaded the free text editor based on word pad, and played with it a
> little. It's very cool, seems completely accessible, and knows that a
> screen reader is being used.
>
> On rereading your message, I'm guessing you're new to windows 7. Yes,
> Documents in Windows 7 and above is what used to be My Documents in XP.
> On your desktop, there's probably an icon that says David. Pressing
> enter there gets you to a list of folders like documents, downloads, and
> Music. The path is probably something like c:\users\david\documents.
>
> I created a practice document in Jarte on my windows 8.1 machine, and
> when I did, the file was saved to documents, which is where I found it
> when I wanted to open it. If your computer is new and you haven't saved
> any documents anywhere, you may be in the root directory so you'd need
> to find Users, David, etc. One thing to be aware of when moving from XP
> to Windows 7 and above is that, when you're in the Save or Open dialog,
> pressing shift+tab from the edit box where you write the file name takes
> you to a tool bar where you can change the sort order of the browsable
> items; then pressing shift+tab a second time actually takes you to the
> list of files. If you were to pres shift+tab a third time, you'd get to
> something unfamiliar.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Ciao
>
>
> On 9/22/2015 6:42 AM, David Russell wrote:
>> Hi again VICUG group,
>> After posting my message earlier today, I did some online digging and
>> thanks to the Jarte web site have the issue stated as my subject.
>> How to find documents previously created in Word by using Jarte.
>> Changes were made using Jarte and file replaced during save.
>> Now, when checking the items list with g colon slash from the start
>> search menu, title comes up but when pressing enter my NVDA reads
>> filename and extension, RTF.
>> The big kicker is that "My Documents" does not exist in Windows Seven.
>> The Jarte materials seem dated.
>> -Does "document folder" accessed from the start menu by pressing right
>> arrow once, tapping the letter d until hearing "documents",
>> insert a storage drive if the document wanted is there,
>> opening the thumb drive folder,
>> finding file name with arrow keys, pressing enter to open,
>> replace what was "my documents?"
>> If so, I am only getting file name and extension, no corresponding text.
>> Sorry to belabor this  but do not know any other way to specify the
>> issue at hand. Thanks again.
>> Kindly,
>>   David Russell
>>
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